The alignment of Delhi-Meerut Express will start from Nizammudin Bridge [T point km 00.000] from Delhi and will continue on existing NH – 24 upto Dasna [km 30.38]. From Dasna there will be completely a new alignment upto Meerut. The alignment will terminate on inner ring road/ Meerut bypass near Railway crossing [km 66] at Meerut.

Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said, “There is an urgent need for an expressway between Delhi and Meerut because NH- 58, the only existing link between the two places is heavily congested with traffic.”

The project is proposed under four packages with the three packages Nizamuddin Bridge to UP Border, UP Border to Dasna and Dasna to Hapur project cost at Rs 2,809.6 crore. The fourth package will be a new alignment of Delhi Meerut Expressway from Dasna to Meerut and six laning of connector.

The total land required for three packages is 348.6 hectares of which 343.36 hectare has already been acquired.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had last month laid the foundation stone of 341 km three national highway projects – the Eastern Peripheral Highway, Western Peripheral Highway and 8 laning of the National Highway between Mukarba Chowk in Delhi and Panipat in Haryana. (ANI)